First Friday Art Walk at DIVA - July 6th

Eugene Art Events - July 4-8, 2012

The Maude Kerns Art Center presents two festivals in July this year at Eugene’s Alton Baker Park: July 4^th Music and the Vineyard with Freedom Festival Fireworks and the 29^th Annual Art and the Vineyard July 6th, 7th, and 8th. Comcast is the Title Sponsor of both events.

July 4^th Music and the Vineyard with Freedom Festival Fireworks: Gates open at 3:30pm. Music and the Vineyard features entertainment on the Main Stage, Oregon wineries, a beer garden, international food booths, and family-friendly activities, including races and games, a texting contest, and various Independence Day entertainment booths. The music line-up includes the alternative group My Father’s Ghost, unique jazz performer Halie Loren and Band, and the folk-funk sensation, the Laura Love Band with Orville Johnson. Music and the Vineyard is open through the Freedom Festival Fireworks. Admission is $7; children 6 – 11 years are $1; under 6 years are free. A Four-Day Discounted Pass that includes admission to the Art and the Vineyard Festival (July 6 – 8) is $20.

July 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th Art and the Vineyard Festival: Look for over 130 artists in the Artists’ Marketplace, over 30 artists in Art For Your Garden, and stellar performing artists on the Main Stage and Youth Stage. Headlining on the Main Stage are the popular covers group The Blue Valentines (Friday), indie pop singer Audrianna Cole (Saturday), and the Albany Swing Band (Sunday). Over 20 Oregon wineries offer wine tasting and the fine art of food preparation is demonstrated in the International Food Court. The Youth Art Arena features art activities for the young at heart, and artist demonstrations take place throughout the festival. Hours are 11:00am – 9:30pm on Friday and Saturday, and 11:00am – 6:30pm on Sunday. One-day admission is $7; children 6 – 11 years are $1; under 6 years are free. A three-day pass is $15.

For more information about Music and the Vineyard with Freedom Festival Fireworks and Art and the Vineyard, call the Maude Kerns Art Center at 541-345-1571 or visit www.artandthevineyard.org

This summer, DIVA's Behind the Lens will explore the uses of movie enchantment in the screening and discussion of fantasy and science fiction films.   Host Tom Blank has selected films that expanded his personal understanding of the potential of the screen to show the impossible, most of which were produced prior to the technical development of computer imagery. All films will be shown at the Baker Center, Tuesday evenings at 7 PM.  A discussion will follow each screening. 

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Poetry Series with Allison Cobb and Linda Russo

DIVA’s A New Poetry Series features authors Allison Cobb and Linda Russo in a presentation of their work at 7:30 PM on Friday, May 18th at DIVA 285 W. Broadway.  Donation welcome.

Allison Cobb is the author of Born2 (Chax Press, 2004) about her hometown of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Green-Wood (Factory School, 2010) about a famous nineteenth-century cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. The New York Times called Green-Wood “a gorgeous, subtle, idiosyncratic gem.” She was a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and received a 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship award from the Oregon Arts Commission. She works for the Environmental Defense Fund and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Linda Russo is the author of Mirth (Chax Press) and the recipient of fellowships at the Centrum Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Millay Colony. Her essay "Precious, Rare, and Mundane" is the preface to Joanne Kyger's About Now: Collected Poems (National Poetry Foundation). She currently lives in the Columbia River Watershed, tending her community garden vegetable patch and teaching at Washington State University.

DIVA is please to be one of the sponsors of the ninth annual edition of The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival, which will take place in the Recital Hall at The Shedd in downtown Eugene during May 8-12, 2012. 

The award ceremony and reception will take place at DIVA on May 12.  

For more information about this annual event see the Festival page at: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml 

DIVA announced the 2012 Teen Video Challenge Competition winners with a screening and awards ceremony on Saturday, April 14th at the Bijou Theater in Eugene. 

The festival’s Jury was please to recognize two first place winning videos this year. Festival Director Steve Newcomb made the awards before a packed theater.

South Eugene High School student Jordyn Roach won a $200 Jury First Place award for her claymation film Jovial Giraffes – a short video in which inanimate objects spring to life from a young boy's sketchpad. Jordyn also won a $50 Audience Choice award.

Adrian Tujillo also won a $200 Jury First place award for his video The Trumpet Player – a story about a young street musician who has a very special talent. Adrian is a student in Springfield’s Academy of Arts and Academics.

University of Oregon Cinema Studies major Samantha Stendal won the $100 Jury Third Place award for her film Diseased in which, after, an alarm rings, Ryan’s race for survival begins with the diseased close at his heels.

More at  http://teenvideo.proscenia.net/

April 14th - Teen Video Challenge - BIJOU!

Join us at 11:00 AM on Saturday, April 14th to celebrate the screening of DIVA's 2012 Teen Video Challenge Competition at the Bijou Theater - 492 East 13th, Eugene. Admission is free but seating is limited.

Each year DIVA (The Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts) calls for Lane County teens ages 13-19 to submit video work that is reviewed by a panel of video professionals and educators. Winning videos will be awarded certificates and cash prizes at this year’s event.

This year 16 videos representing a wide range of film themes will be screened and include animation, documentary, music video, and narrative film categories.

The Teen Video Challenge, established in 2003, is the youth division of DIVA’s OpenLens Festival. It is funded, in part, by grants from the Oregon Media Production Association and the Lane Arts Council and is dedicated to celebrating the work of young filmmakers throughout the county.

More: teenvideo.proscenia.net

Behind The Lens Seminar Begins April 3rd

The Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA) hosts "Behind the Lens", a weekly film seminar that explores the relationship between classic feature films and the culture in which they appeared. The Seminar is offered to the community in collaboration with the University of Oregon Arts and Administration and Academic Extension programs.

Each week a single film is screened and discussed.  The host, Tom Blank, is a retired film and television director, who brings illuminating insights to the history of Hollywood and International film production.

All films begin at 7:00 PM and are followed by a lecture, discussion and question and answer period.  The duration of each session varies by the screening length of the film. Screenings take place at the UO Baker Center at 7:00 PM. The Center is located at 325 East 10th Street, Eugene. Free parking on site.

Tues. April 3. "Crossfire" (1947) Director, Edward Dmytryk; Writer, John Paxton (86 minutes). Plot: A man is murdered in a New York hotel room by, apparently,  one of  three soldiers just out of the army. Cast:  Robert Young and Robert Mitchum. 

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First Friday Art Walk - New Exhibit At DIVA

Join us during the First Friday Art Walk on April 6th for the opening of Window Seat - The Art of the Circle Field by James W. Earl. Opening/reception hours: 5:30 - 8:30 PM. Click2Read more online.